AltWeeklies Wire
The Big Uneasynew
New Orleans is revealed in fact and film.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
09-14-2005 |
Disasters
The Day the Music Died
New Orleans-born musicians now in Santa Fe contemplate life after The Big Easy.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Nathan Dinsdale |
09-14-2005 |
Disasters
Waiting for Help in the Shadow of the Superdomenew
On a bridge that stands above floodwater near the Superdome, sick and hungry people waited endlessly for buses to take them from New Orleans.
Association of Alternative Newsmedia |
Burk Foster |
09-14-2005 |
Disasters
Inside the Dome
A physician gives a first-hand report on treating evacuees in the Astrodome.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Daniel Kovnat |
09-14-2005 |
Disasters
Things Fall Apart
In New Orleans, a convoy of emergency responders find a Motel Six with its side ripped off, a tattered mattress on top of a car, starving dogs and a lone man who doesn't want to leave his home and go out into all that filth.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Dan Frosch |
09-14-2005 |
Disasters
Residents in New Orleans' Outlying Parishes Feel Alonenew
Residents of Plaquemines, St. Bernard, Jefferson and other parishes say they were overlooked in the aid effort, and the suffering has left sheriff's deputies heartbroken.
Association of Alternative Newsmedia |
Jeremy Alford |
09-14-2005 |
Disasters
Press Recognizes Katrina Puts U.S. in Third Worldnew
Hurricane Katrina coverage stood out because it was so honest and clear about government's failure. The question is whether reporters will sustain their outrage and reclaim the aggressive portion of their historical role.
The Village Voice |
Sydney H. Schanberg |
09-14-2005 |
Media
The Reformation of Matthew Foxnew
Against the odds, an Oakland, Calif., theologian -- most famous as a critic of Pope Benedict XVI -- takes his inclusive notion of Christianity global.
Thunderbirds in the Garden
As the New Orleans floodwaters recede, the
Oklahoma National Guard’s 45th Infantry Brigade changes its mission.
Oklahoma Gazette |
Ben Fenwick |
09-14-2005 |
Disasters
Submerged: An Evacuee's Journal: City of the Dead
For evacuees of Hurricane Katrina, nothing stops conversation like a first-hand account about home. Second in a multi-part series
Association of Alternative Newsmedia |
Michael Tisserand |
09-13-2005 |
Disasters
Brass-Band Funeral: Jazz and Destructionnew
Katrina brought home what a lot of us tourists sensed implicitly for years: that the New Orleans cultural scene owes much of its vitality to a community that lives on the edge of subsistence, for which that culture isn’t merely "entertainment," but truly a matter of life and death.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
09-13-2005 |
Disasters
Bad Mushroom Trip Ends in Youth's Deathnew
A young man announced his impending death on the Internet before he was shot by police.
Cleveland Scene |
Kevin Hoffman |
09-13-2005 |
Science
Trial to Determine If Mother Burned Her Son Alivenew
Sandy Kemper is accused of setting the fire that killed her 15-year-old son Zachary and brought her an insurance settlement.
Riverfront Times |
Kristen Hinman |
09-13-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Faulty Breath-Testing Machines Jeopardize DUI Casesnew
Problems with maintaining Intoxilyzer machines mean thousands of cases against accused drunk drivers could be dropped.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Eric Alan Barton |
09-13-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Judges Experiment With Advisory Juriesnew
Taking a novel approach to encourage the parties in a lawsuit to settle, a Florida judge empaneled a jury for a half-day to predict what a likely verdict would be.
Miami New Times |
Forrest Norman |
09-13-2005 |
Crime & Justice
